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(In the US, his name would translate as Count Trash Can-Face or Count Garbage Can-Face.)
by WalterGR 3mo ago
(In the US, his name would translate as Count Trash Can-Face or Count Garbage Can-Face.)
- josemanuel 3mo agoSame in the UK. If you look at his pic, you’ll see it’s literal!
- JumpCrisscross 3mo ago"Bin," generally, isn't British English. We have recycling bins, for instance.
- gwerbin 3mo agoYes but in the USA a "bin" usually refers to a generic category of containers, often rectangular. A "recycling bin" is a specific kind of bin, and it's almost always qualified as such. If you called it a "bin" out of context people would be confused or think you're trying to be British or something.
- georgemcbay 3mo agoYeah, I'd say it exists in a linguistic grey-zone where understanding is a lot more common than usage. Practically no American ever calls a garbage can a "bin" (though like you say we do have a concept of generic 'bins') but a lot of Americans will immediately know what you mean if you say it, sort of like "flat" and "apartment" (nobody calls them flats in the US, but many people know what you're talking about if you say it).
- zabzonk 3mo ago> isn't British English. Eh? Most commonly uttered words in UK English: "Have you put the bins out?"
- titanomachy 3mo agoHe means not exclusively British English
- Lio 3mo agoThen he should probably say that. Almost no words are exclusively "British English" as it is the original and oldest dialect of the language.
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- actionfromafar 3mo agoBoth are equally old ;) JK ... but American English retain many older features of English which British English since modified.
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- drcongo 3mo agoThe trashcan on modern macOS in Britain is called the "bin" and I hate it - somehow it feels wrong.
- gwerbin 3mo agoOr in Massachusetts, Count Barrelface.
- lproven 3mo agoNo. The point of the comment was to clarify the confusion that you are reinforcing. A "bin" in BrEn does not mean a generic container: it generally means a receptacle for waste, refuse, or garbage.
- gwerbin 3mo agoYes, and in Massachusetts specifically people often call curbside trash cans "barrels", often without any qualification. "I forgot to bring the barrel into the garage and now there's a racoon family in there". Maybe it's some kind of extreme local regional thing in my area. I grew up in NY and I never heard anyone say it there, but all the locals here seem to say it.
- lproven 3mo agoAll right. But only curbside ones? ("Kerbside" for me. "Curb" is the verb.) A bin is any trashcan in BrEn... in your office, in your kitchen or bathroom, behind the house, whatever. So it's still not an ideal match.
- blitzar 3mo agoBinny McBin Face.